After setting up more than 40 camera traps in a remote mountain range in north-east Papua New Guinea, researchers have captured unprecedented images of previously unknown animals, including this adorable wallaby.

All images Tenkile Conservation Alliance and Deakin University via The Guardian.

In addition to the Docopsulus wallaby, the researchers captured shots of a "Dumbo" mouse with giant ears, and an antechinus, a sort of shrew-like marsupial. Several rare tree kangaroos were also photographed.

Docopsulus wallaby:

The discoveries were made by Euan Ritchie, an ecologist at Deakin University in Melbourne, along with the Tenkile Conservation Alliance, a group headed by Australians Jim and Jean Thomas.